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There are normal things that happen to hard drives and individual, occasionally unusual things that clients have managed to do over the three decades we've been recovering data for them. The usual suspects: Dust, fur, heat, electrical spikes, bumps, loose cables....

The stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty. It was a cold and rainy San Francisco afternoon. I sat sweating in the conference room of a gritty skyscraper downtown. The deposing lawyer across from me was standing up,...

Both computer forensics experts and data recovery technicians seek to recover deleted data. Data recovery is primarily interested in bringing back files, while computer forensics tends to dig deeper, looking not just for deleted documents, but also for metadata (data...

The stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty. It was a grey October day, the kind of day when a guy likes to cozy up next to a bank of servers to keep warm, when the Teacher first called me. "They think I'm nuts" were...

By Steve Burgess Unified communications is the term used for integrating all communications - data and voice - over the Internet. This can include data in its myriad forms such as email, instant messaging data, data generated by business computer applications, faxes,...

By Steve Burgess A student asked me an interesting question today, regarding what I foresee in the field of computer forensics in the coming years: 5, 10, & 50. Having not thought about it before , my answers surprised me a bit. Mr. Burgess, I would like to thank...

In the field of computer forensics, as in the field of law, procedures in civil cases differ somewhat from those in criminal cases. The collection of data and presentation of evidence may be held to different standards, the process of data collection and imaging can...

What's the difference between data recovery, computer forensics and e-discovery? All three fields deal with data, and specifically digital data. It's all about electrons in the form of zeroes and ones. And it's all about taking information that may be hard to find and...

The stories are true; the names and places have been changed to protect the potentially guilty. A dame, a rich guy, and an email account: what more do you need for a story? I was in my office one fine spring day in Marin studying the benefits of Eastern philosophy,...

Your data is not private! In the privacy of our studies, offices, libraries, or wherever it is we have our computers, it may seem that we are alone, with no one looking over our shoulders. But every document we draft, every step through the Internet we take, is...